Lory Bedikian received her BA from UCLA with an emphasis in Creative Writing and Poetry. She earned her MFA in Poetry from the University of Oregon, where she received the Dan Kimble First Year Teaching Award for Poetry. Bedikian’s The Book of Lamenting won the 2010 Philip Levine Prize in Poetry. She currently teaches poetry workshops in Los Angeles.
Lory Bedikian
Poem
Needle Biopsy
We watch what we think is hesitance as its long legs enter the stream’s edge after a few moments we call forever, and even then, the movement deliberate, slow, what fear Continue reading